With a newly constructed dataset on foreign firms in Japan for the period 1995-2008 from firm-level surveys, this paper estimates the impact of foreign firms on industrial productivity at the regional level. A Bayesian-model averaging approach is taken to account for model uncertainty resulting from various linkages between foreign firms and domestic industries. The results show that the foreig...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the cause, diagnosis, and management of intravesical foreign bodies in patients treated at our hospital and to review and update management of intravesical foreign bodies reported in the current literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen patients had been treated for intravesical foreign bodies at Nishtar Medical College Hospital, Multan, Paki...

OBJECTIVE Most foreign bodies in the airway are removed by respiratory endoscopy. Rarely, the removal of the foreign body has to be performed through endoscopic control by tracheotomy or tracheostomy. This article reports three cases of foreign body removal in children performed by tracheal opening. DESCRIPTION Retrospective review of records with report of three cases of children who aspirat...

Purpose: The aim of the study is to characterize the ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound artifact patterns of foreign bodies and to define the role of elastography in their detection. Material and method: Two in-vitro environments including a lamb leg and a lamb stomach coated with ultrasound gel, were prepared. Twenty-seven foreign bodies grouped as metallic, organic and inorganic were evaluated...

Recently, a dramatic accumulation of foreign exchange reserves has been widely observed among developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to explore what macroeconomic impacts accumulated foreign reserves have in developing countries. In the first part, we analyze a simple open economy model where increased foreign reserves reduce costs of liquidity risk. Given the amount of foreign rese...

Because of the unprecedented pace of globalization, foreign experiences are increasingly common and valued. Past research has focused on the benefits of foreign experiences, including enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential dark side of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., ex...

Over the past few years, the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies such as weblogs, wikis, and social networks has created new opportunies and challenges in the field of foreign language learning. The characteristics of Web 2.0, which facilitate interactive information sharing, user-centered designs, and online collaboration, are recognized to have great potential for more effective teaching and le...

OBJECTIVE To explore the clinical characteristics of children pen sheath bronchial foreign body, andto conclude rigid bronchoscope and self-made foreign body hook in the value of diagnosis and treatment in childrenpen sheath bronchial foreign body and operating considerations. METHODS 21 pen sheath bronchial foreign body cases diagnosed and treated by rigid bronchoscopy were retrospective ana...

Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue? It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less systematic. We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases. Four ...

BACKGROUND Beside infections, foreign body incidences are amongst the most frequently encountered pathologies in pediatric otolaryngology. While inhaled foreign bodies represent an acute emergency, symptoms of ingested foreign bodies sometimes appear with some delay. Typically fishbones tend to go unnoticed in a first examination and become symptomatic by fever, odynodysphagia and torticollis. ...